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Vito's revenge did not stir much of a ripple in Chicago.
After all, the people who died were just a small dock boss and a few of his henchmen. These people might have been local thugs in the underworld, but they were not even real gangsters. Their deaths were hardly worth anyone's concern.
A little money was thrown around, and the police file simply noted it as a "gang shootout."
And that was that.
Starting from the next day, Vito officially became a member of Josh's bodyguard team.
The only thing that puzzled Vito a bit was that, to be a bodyguard for Josh, he had to undergo a so-called "physical check-up." During the check-up, it felt like they had drawn too much blood from him...
However, when he learned that his monthly salary was a whopping 200 dollars, all doubts disappeared.
After all, when he was in the army, his salary was only around 100 dollars (paratroopers received an extra 50), but now it has doubled. Plus, as a bodyguard, their daily tasks were light. With three shifts and Josh not being a micromanager, the bodyguards mostly had a comfortable routine with only occasional military training.
Vito quickly adapted to his new life and began to enjoy the job.
In less than a week on the job, he was notified that he should get ready to accompany Josh to Los Angeles, to Hollywood.
Vito was excited. After all, it was Hollywood—what young American wouldn't long for it?
..........
"...Damn it, old man, how could you do this?" Josh muttered as he looked at the information about a young girl and the familiar face in the photograph. He tugged at the corner of his mouth and stared at Linden Schneider, who was sitting across from him.
Though the girl's name on the file was Angela Fily, Josh immediately recognized her face. She was none other than the famous Hollywood actress from his original world, Marilyn Monroe.
However, after the experience with Sabrina, the maid from the Leibler family, who had looked like Audrey Hepburn, Josh's reaction this time wasn't as strong. Moreover, Monroe was not his type.
The reason Josh was so disdainful of Linden Schneider was entirely because this girl in the file was only 18 years old, and according to Linden, she had already been his mistress since last year.
Which meant, at that time, Angela was only 17...
And how old was Linden Schneider? This old man was over 50, older than Josh's father.
A classic case of an old cow eating young grass.
"Heh heh, it's really nothing. This girl was with that old fart, Emery, and had been with him for more than two years already. So, what does it matter if I take her now?" Linden Schneider sneered with a lecherous smile.
Josh fell silent upon hearing this. Well, well, this girl had already been with Emery for two years... How old was she back then?
It turned out that Angela was the mistress of the well-known lawyer Emery, who had committed suicide by gunshot.
Linden Schneider had actually met Emery when they were planning a jewelry heist, and he had been thinking about this girl ever since.
After Emery died, Linden, after being released from prison and joining Josh's crew, quickly earned a lot of money. So, the old man made his way to Angela.
Coincidentally, Angela was the type of girl with no survival skills. She had been entirely dependent on Emery, and after his death, she didn't have much money left.
When Linden found her, she was already considering whether to go work at a chicken farm.
So, Linden just showed a little of his wealth, and without hesitation, the girl attached herself to him.
Damn, this wicked money-driven society! When I'm old, I will definitely keep a few young girls!
Josh thought to himself angrily.
"Alright, I got it. Just bring her along when you come with me!" Josh tossed the file back to the old man.
The reason Linden Schneider brought this girl's information to Josh was because Josh was about to take over two movie companies, and Linden wanted to find something for his mistress to do.
However, his actions did give Josh a hint.
There was no doubt that if Josh gave this Angela girl a bit of packaging, she wouldn't necessarily become as famous as Monroe, but she could certainly gain some popularity with a little push.
In his previous life, Monroe's rise to stardom was heavily influenced by two men named Kennedy...Of course, her death was also linked to these two men.
That's the irony of it all.
Although Josh now had some influence in the United States, he was still nowhere near compared to those two brothers.
Their father, old Kennedy, was the head of the Boston financial group—a super-rich man who had held high office in Roosevelt's administration and had immense prestige in both business and politics.
The three brothers, all still young, had all become senior officers in the military.
Yes, at this point, there were still three brothers, not two, because they had an older brother, a pilot in the Air Force, who would die in a plane crash during a mission that summer.
The remaining two brothers worked in naval intelligence and quickly moved into politics after the war, eventually becoming congressmen.
How could Josh, who started his career relatively recently, compare to such figures born with golden bricks?
Of course, in the long run, these two brothers posed no threat to Josh. Sooner or later, they would all go off the deep end...Yes, many people only knew that the president's older brother, John Kennedy, was assassinated, but few knew that his younger brother, Robert Kennedy, would also be shot dead during a presidential campaign five years later.
It was quite tragic.
But if Josh remembered correctly, the death of the Kennedys in the Marvel universe was also related to Hydra, wasn't it?
Alright, moving off-topic. What would happen to the Kennedys in the future had nothing to do with Josh.
What Josh was thinking about now was, since he had Angela, the "Marilyn Monroe," could he also bring in Sabrina, the "Audrey Hepburn," to his movie company?
And his rich sister, Margot...well, forget it. No need for that.
By the way, were there any other famous, yet still rising, actresses in this era?
Elizabeth Taylor?
In Josh's original world, this girl was already a famous child star, but in this world, Josh hadn't heard of her. She probably didn't exist.
No worries though. Having "Monroe" and "Hepburn" in his hands was already a great start.
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